…we deeply regret not updating the site in over a week. I am working feverishly on a book deadline and Susan is working feverishly with International Bird Rescue to try to save dying, mysterious-goo-covered birds that keep washing ashore in the Bay Area. (You can see her cleaning a surf scoter in the second link.)
We apologize to you, our loyal readers, for not giving you your fill of good and crappy apologies. (I’m sure Susan would like the unknown entity that dumped the stuff into the Bay to apologize, but this is not currently happening.)
Image Credits: By Ratite fancier. CC A-SA 2.0 Generic.
The birds at International Bird Rescure aren’t dying!
Thanks to amazing & skilled people who are going out there & collecting the struggling be-gunked birds, and the amazing and skilled people — IBR staff and many many volunteers from IBR & other wildlife centers — who are keeping them warm, feeding them, medicating them, washing them, cleaning up after them (THE HORROR), and putting them back in water when they can handle it again, the birds will go free to swim another day.
I happened to be helping rinse a photogenic bird the day the photographer came.